A lot of this depends on context, and obviously we're not getting any of that in a quick anecdote (not OP's fault, just the nature of things). In a larger comp

A lot of this depends on context, and obviously we're not getting any of that in a quick anecdote (not OP's fault, just the nature of things). In a larger company, where you're always hiring and there's specific time allotted for it, that approach makes some sense. But in a smaller company where I might have one or two positions to fill and the interview process is a serious hit on productivity, presumably the net step is to set up interviews and the first interviews are going to go to the people who didn't completely misread the exercise and submit Enterprise FizzBuzz.